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TI Introduces Industry's Fastest 16-Bit SAR ADC at 4MSPS

The ADS8422 successfully complements several recently released best-in-class ADCs, such as the industry's fastest 16-bit delta-sigma ADC (ADS1610,10MSPS) and the industry's fastest 14-bit pipeline converter (ADS5546,190MSPS).

Availability and Packaging

The ADS8422 is sampling now, with volume production scheduled for 3Q 2006. The device is available in a 48-pin TQFP package and is priced at $31.95 in1,000-piece quantities (suggested resale pricing). Evaluation modules (EVMs)are also available.

TI offers analog engineers a wide-ranging support infrastructure that includes training and seminars, design tools and utilities, technical documentation, evaluation modules, an online Knowledge Base, a productinformation hotline and a comprehensive offering of samples that ship within 24 hours of request. For more information on TI's complete analog designsupport, and to download the latest Amplifier & Data Converter SelectionGuide, visit http://www.ti.com/analog .

About Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customers' real world signal processing requirements. In additional to Semiconductor, the company includes the Educational & Productivity Solutions business. TI is headquartered in Dallas , Texas, and hasmanufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries.

Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under thesymbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web athttp://www.ti.com .